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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid

GreenTechMedia

All of these benefits can be captured with solar, wind, existing hydropower and lithium-ion battery technologies at projected 2030 prices, he added. It co-optimizes grid capacity investments and hourly operations costs of generation, storage, and transmission to meet projected electricity demand in 2040.

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

They plan to combine green energy provided by wind turbines, biomass, solar panels and hydropower, with agricultural waste and grasses from the Northern provinces in the Netherlands as feedstock for the chemical cluster. Another, potentially even more futuristic example is Heliogen , dedicated to making fuel out of thin air.